unlike Notre Dame, Louisiana State Univ, U of Idaho, and Mississippi State Univ, and 178 others.

1. Whether a college is rural, suburban, or in a town, city, or big city, is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. Information on majors and programs of study is from the Completions Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Top majors are the ones that have the most conferred degrees. If it says "is in" rather than just "is", then various top majors were combined into a new attribute. For example, colleges whose top major is "in engineering" will include a college whose top major is chemical engineering, another whose top major is electrical engineering, and so on.
   

Appalachian College of Pharmacy is in Oakwood, VA, is private and nonprofit, grants doctorates, is on the trimester system, its top Doctoral major is pharmacy, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($93,442)
• endowment per full-time student ($2,712)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• minorities (25.4%)
• Asians (19.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 7.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.2%)
• Hispanics (1.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -6.7%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (32.9 degrees)
• foreign students (0)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (221)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• annual rainfall (44.4 inches)
• elevation (448 meters)

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